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Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

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Date 2013-10-24 07:40 +1100
Subject Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1425.1382560813.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote:
> I have a program that runs like this:
>
>   foo.py <inputfile
>
> I want to reconnect stdin to the tty as usual after 'inputfile'
> has been read so that things like raw_input and getpass
> will work as expected.
>
> So, after I do .... = sys.stdin.readlines(), how to I reopen
> stdin in its nonredirected mode?

You fundamentally can't reopen "stdin", as that will just be your
input file. What you want to do is open the console (TTY) itself. What
platform are you on?

ChrisA

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Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-23 12:25 -0500
  Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 07:40 +1100
  Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 07:46 +1100
  Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 07:52 +1100
  Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-23 17:01 -0400
  Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 09:20 +1100
    Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-23 19:09 -0500
      Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 14:53 +1100
        Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-23 23:36 -0500
        Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-23 23:39 -0500
        Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 15:54 +1100
          Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-24 06:58 -0500
          Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-24 06:58 -0500
            Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 13:10 +0100
              Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-24 08:41 -0500
                Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection feedthetroll@gmx.de - 2013-10-24 07:36 -0700
                Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-24 09:43 -0500
              Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-24 08:41 -0500
                Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-24 07:30 -0700
      Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-24 09:14 +0100
      Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 19:43 +1100
      Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-24 05:45 -0500
      Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 12:33 +0100
      Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-24 07:39 -0700
    Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-10-23 19:09 -0500
  Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 09:23 +1100

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